4N #3
185 x 240 mm, 160 pages
New York, US
Biannual
Since 2024
Editor: Wen-You Cai
Guest editor: Annette An-Jen Liu
Art direction and design: Panny Chayapumh
‘A community magazine showcasing extraordinary foreign talent in America’
The brainchild of New York creative studio Special Special, 4N (‘Foreign’) provides an inclusive space for foreign creatives to display their work. In outlining the motivations behind the biannual, the team explicitly acknowledge ‘the challenges faced by foreigners in obtaining sufficient credentials to demonstrate their value for staying in the United States’.
Issue three is guest edited by New York-based Taiwanese arts writer and curator Annette An-Jen Liu and holds a magnifying glass up to the chimera of the American dream, exploring the realities currently faced by foreign creatives living and working within the United States. The twelve creatives platformed in the issue hail from around the globe and work across a diverse array of mediums from food blogging to spatial design.
Highlights include cover artist Mengru Zhou’s vibrant, psychologically probing paintings and a poignant editor’s letter from the November 2024 issue of Impulse Magazine, transforming anger at US anti-immigration policies into productive action.